Achievement Guide for Committed

Achievement won on 29 Sep 13TA Score for this game: 1,608
Posted on 17 September 13 at 10:06, Edited on 07 October 16 at 01:47

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Method 1 - Should work no matter what region you are inThis should work if you do it at the times specified below. If you are unable to do it at this time, then I recommend you use my original method 2, which is guaranteed to work no matter what time you do it, and will get you two other achievements with no additional effort. If it didn't work at that time, try again 24 hours later. You can also try this at an earlier time, as that has worked for some people. This may not work between 25th - 31st December.

If you are doing this during a leap year, try the first day, then if that fails try the following day.

The day of the week you need to do it on changes each year:2014 Monday2015 Tuesday2016 (until 29th February) Wednesday2016 (after 29th February) Thursday2017 Friday2018 Saturday2019 Sunday2020 (until 29th February) Monday2020 (after 29th February) Tuesday2021 Wednesday2022 onwards - it will be the day of the week that the 6th January falls on.

If you live in on a continent with a UTC+6 or greater timezone (Asia, Australia), the day of the week you need to do it on will be:2014 Tuesday2015 Wednesday2016 (until 29th February) Thursday2016 (after 29th February) Friday2017 Saturday2018 Sunday2019 Monday2020 (until 29th February) Tuesday2020 (after 29th February) Wednesday2021 Thursday2022 onwards - it will be the day of the week that the 7th January falls on.

From the Xbox Home dashboard go to the Settings page and select the System tile- Press to select Console Settings- Go down 3 to Clock and press - Go down 2 to Time Zone and press - Go to the bottom of the list and select GMT+14 Kiribati and press - Press to go back to Xbox Home- Go to the Home page and start Brothers in Arms: HH- Wait for game to load but do not press

[REPEAT FROM HERE]Press - From the Settings blade select System Settings- Select Yes to Exit and press - Press to select Console Settings- Go down 3 to Clock and press - Go down 2 to Time Zone and press - Go down 1 to GMT-12 Tokelau and press

Press - From the Games & Apps blade select Recent- Press to Launch Brothers in Arms: HH- Wait for game to load but do not press

Press - From the Settings blade select System Settings- Select Yes to Exit and press - Press to select Console Settings- Go down 3 to Clock and press - Go down 2 to Time Zone and press - Go up 1 to GMT+14 Kiribati and press

Press - From the Games & Apps blade select Recent- Press to Launch Brothers in Arms: HH- Wait for game to load but do not press Go to REPEAT FROM HERE

Repeat 6 times (for a total of 13 games played) to get the achievement, which will take about 15 minutes. Then set it back to your Time Zone.

Method 2 - Works no matter what time you chose to do itEasy to follow complete solution to get these three achievements in just one week:

Unlike many of the other solutions, this one works regardless of what year it is and what time zone you are in.

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***Pick a week when you will be able to do this at the same time each day - 7am, 9pm, it doesn't matter. You should start before half-past the hour and I recommend you don't pick a week when daylight saving changes and don't start it after Christmas day. To speed this up, install Brothers in Arms: Hells Highway to your hard disk, or use the Games on Demand version.

From the Xbox Home dashboard go to the Settings page and select the System tile- Press A to select Console Settings- Go down 3 to Clock and press - Go down 2 to Time Zone and press - Go to the bottom of the list and select GMT+14 Kiribati and press - Press to go back to Xbox Home- Go to the Home page and start Brothers in Arms: HH- Wait for game to load but do not press

[REPEAT FROM HERE]Press - From the Settings blade select System Settings- Select Yes to Exit and press - Press to select Console Settings- Go down 3 to Clock and press - Go down 2 to Time Zone and press - Go down 1 to GMT-12 Tokelau and press

Press - From the Games & Apps blade select Recent- Press to Launch Brothers in Arms: HH- Wait for game to load but do not press

Press - From the Settings blade select System Settings- Select Yes to Exit and press - Press to select Console Settings- Go down 3 to Clock and press - Go down 2 to Time Zone and press - Go up 1 to GMT+14 Kiribati and press

Press - From the Games & Apps blade select Recent- Press to Launch Brothers in Arms: HH- Wait for game to load but do not press Go to REPEAT FROM HERE

Repeat 7 times each day (for a total of 15 games played), which will take about 15 minutes. Then set it back to your Time Zone.

After 7 days you will have all 3 achievements, as long as you do this at the same time each day. Of course once you get the Committed achievement, it doesn't matter when you carry on doing this for the Obsessive achievement.

The boring details of how this achievement works

*** Spoiler - click to reveal ***You could just load the game on a Tuesday say, every week for 13 weeks, or you could load the game every day for 90 odd days to get the achievement.

The game detects if you last loaded the game during a set 7 day period. If you have, it doesn't count towards the achievement, but if you haven't it counts as having "played once that week" and then stores that as the 7 day period to check against. However there is 24 hours during the week where you can either load the game during the 7 day period and then put your time zone forward by 24-26 hours to load the game in the next 7 day period, or load the game and put your time zone backwards by 24-26 hours to load the game in the previous 7 day period. However nobody knows the exact time and day the set 7 day period ends and the next one starts. Obviously because of time zones that time and possibly day will be different depending on what country you are in. Also the day of the week shifts each year (for example the 6th January 2013 was a Sunday but 6th January 2014 is a Monday).

By changing your time zone and launching the game at least 13 times during the same hour every day for a week you will be doing this at least once during the 24 hour window (it's like betting on every horse in a race - you are guaranteed to win). Since you need to launch the game 100 times for the Obsessive achievement anyway, loading the game 15 times everyday over 7 days does not require any additional effort.

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